{"id":727,"date":"2008-11-18T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=727"},"modified":"2008-11-18T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:06:13","slug":"intent-at-age-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/11\/18\/intent-at-age-8\/","title":{"rendered":"intent at age 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>seriously?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/11\/07\/child.charged.ap\/index.html\">an 8-year-old boy in arizona has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder <\/a>in the deaths of his father and another man.\u00a0 i see all kinds of problems with this case &#8212; first, how do you prove intent and premeditation in one so young?\u00a0 current research is suggesting that human brains aren&#8217;t fully developed until individuals are in their twenties, let alone double-digits.\u00a0 can we really hold an 8-year-old fully responsible for this kind of crime?\u00a0 second, police apparently questioned the boy without parents or legal representatives present.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/11\/18\/arizona.boy.murder\/index.html\">assuming he did confess<\/a>, how much is this confession worth?\u00a0 wouldn&#8217;t anyone be terrified and overwhelmed under these terrible circumstances?\u00a0 this case will be interesting to watch\u00a0as it will test the boundaries of our beliefs about kids, crime, and\u00a0the juvenile justice system.\u00a0 stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seriously?\u00a0 an 8-year-old boy in arizona has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of his father and another man.\u00a0 i see all kinds of problems with this case &#8212; first, how do you prove intent and premeditation in one so young?\u00a0 current research is suggesting that human brains aren&#8217;t fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[31529],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-juvenile-justice","tag-juvenile-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}